[445] The Chinese foot as at present standardised is about two inches longer than the English foot, and the Chinese inch is one-tenth of it.
[447] There are four examples of the large size of fish bowl in the Pierpont Morgan Collection, but they are of late Ming date.
[448] Possibly the tint named in the T’ao shuo (Bushell, op. cit., p. 5). “They are coloured wax yellow, tea green, gold brown, or the tint of old Lama books,” in reference to incense burners of this period.
[449] Nos. 8, 9 and 11. See Bushell, T’ao shuo, op. cit., pp. 16–19.
[451] A plaque in the Bushell Collection with famille verte painting has also a remarkably lustrous appearance, which I can only ascribe to excessive iridescence.
[452] See Bushell’s translation, op. cit. p. 20.
[453] Figured by L. Binyon, Painting in the Far East, first edition, Plate XIX. There is a fine vase of late Ming blue and white porcelain with this design in the Dresden collection.
[454] This green enamel is sometimes netted over with lines suggesting crackle studded with prunus blossoms. Possibly this is intended to recall both in colour and pattern the “plum blossom” crackle of the Sung Kuan yao; see vol. i., p. [61].